Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Uruguay and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Icehouse to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Section 25 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joey Negro record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Womack,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Reuben Wilson,
Sun City Girls,
Connie Case,
Vladislav Delay,
The Leaves,
The Invisible,
Pere Ubu,
Tim Buckley,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Susan Cadogan,
Ronan,
Boogie Down Productions,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Nils Olav,
Skarface,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Grey Daturas,
Excepter,
The Doors,
Prince Buster,
a-ha,
The Move,
The Star Department,
Average White Band,
Pantaleimon,
Idris Muhammad,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Unwound,
The Velvet Underground,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Supertramp,
Alphaville,
Groovy Waters,
Terry Callier,
The Fugs,
Thee Headcoats,
Main Source,
Agent Orange,
The Pretty Things,
Ossler,
Gregory Isaacs,
Eve St. Jones,
The Mojo Men,
Archie Shepp,
Mary Jane Girls,
Wire,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Icehouse,
Lalann,
Faust,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Aural Exciters,
X-101,
Bobby Sherman,
Boredoms,
The Slackers,
Man Parrish,
Rakim,
Das Ding,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.